#dragon poetry

[helgiafterdark]

if you have a dragon oc (that is, you have an oc who is an elder scrolls/skyrim dragon) please tell me who they are. i want to write a poem about them.

i'm writing a selection of small poems for an in-fic book about dragons. i already have written about many dragons i invented, but i'm thinking maybe i could use some "variety" since i lean toward a lot of the same themes over and over.

even if so far you have only thought of their name or maybe you haven't thought of this at all, this will prompt you to get creative and make something up!

send anything to the replies or reblogs, please. i won't be turning on messaging/asks on this blog bc too many bots send me stuff constantly.

tell me:

their name. MUST be a proper dovahzul name. if they don't have one, i will invent one for you if you want and will work with you to achieve this. otherwise, i'm not writing about them. and NO non-canon dovahzul (semi-canon is possibly fine if you also consider yourself to be a dovahzul speaker)

any deeds they have committed, good, bad, evil, cruel, strange, etc. that may be noteworthy historically

any obscure but major facts about them that could be lost in time. something the ancient nords knew but that 4e people do not and cannot find this info anywhere else

a physical description, such as the color of their wings and scales, what their horns look like, how big they are, etc. if you have made any art pls show me!!

any other interesting/unique abilities they possessed

info that i do not need at this time:

their recent actions after alduin resurrected them, if applicable

if they never died and lived in obscurity somewhere throughout the millennia and what they did during that time

if they weren't in skyrim or solstheim pre- and during the dragon war, or if they would've been unknown to the ancient nords, they can't be included

don't worry too much about what to share/not share, feel free to just yap about your dovah! i'm here for it!

the point of this is that my ldb haela has inherited an ancient family book of poems/stories about the dragons and has passed it on to her children. the poems are scattered throughout the work and referenced by the characters sometimes. i want to put them all together at some point to have a more "complete" set of poems which represent the book of poetry my characters possess – separate from the main work. your dovah will not be mentioned in the fic whatsoever, it's just to fill up my poetry selection and flesh it out more!

i have written many poems in dovahzul and in this specific free-verse style. in fic, the poems are inferred to be written in dovahzul. i, as the author, am kindly translating. i would consider them free-verse, as they are written in a way that mimics being translated from an ancient dialect (dovahzul).

i can't say when i'll finish writing it, as it's a small part in a very large work. but if i end up writing about your dovah i will definitely share it with you :D thank you if you choose to send anything!

*there is no time limit on this and i'll keep this post pinned until i no longer need any more info!

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small excerpt as an example:

Horrid blood-seeker

who devours man and beast

tearing the flesh

and swallowing the blood

Fearsome one,

who has ended many mortal lives

And when the battle-horns sound,

when the screams pierce the clouds,

wherever blood should be spilled,

the dovah Volyahsos

would join in slaughter

No pleasure is greater

than to kill in the name

of himself

(this particular poem is in fact translated from a larger dovahzul piece i wrote. it was not written in english and then translated to dovauzul. this is how i write almost all of my dragon poems)

[thaliaoftheastralclocktower]

Daily poem 21

Dragonborn of emerald

spark of Saridor she held

Honed that power, soon she felt

Ready what the world withheld

Went towards the realm of fey

Wandered through the moonlight day

Walked in streets of rainbow clay

Was lost but never dreamed dismay

Soon she felt enough was seen

Asked where all the years had been

Thought it had been long last seen

Her home and ruby tempel beam

But when she found the portal home

The Tempel was destroyed and torn

Only ruins where once her dorm

And all the mighty dragons gone

Now she guards the world's last egg

Last one left, she still protects

Centuries since first she left

Came back home, greeted by death

Now waits for cursed kings attack

This is about the backstory of a back up character. Trying to build a psionic monk with this one.

[t00thpasteface]

further line/shape explorations...

[caemidraws]

Who's to blame / when the fruit was sweet and I knew no shame

If it was the only mean for us to meet / would you ask me not to take it again?

[schneesisterss]

alicent standing finally free amongst the sky and sea and rhaenyra crushed by the weight of history

[questionable-idea]

If I was a dragon i'd put my wing over you like a blanket while we laid side by side and watched the sunset. btw.

[cutsleevebat]

Dragonji apprehends Crowxian for his crow crimes 😤 His punishment is joining Dragonji’s hoard of suspiciously acquired possessions 🤔

This is a sequel to my previous Crowxian drawing :3

[rossenn]

Cole in a grassy field like what more could you possibly need

[franzkafkagf]

AEGON & AEMOND; MY BROTHER, MY KILLER

killing flies — michael dickman / house of the dragon / famous blue raincoat — leonard cohen

[withdenim]

So uh. How about that time skip huh. (Corvus composing and performing the best track in the show was so hot of him btw if you care)

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

gonna be honest, if I cried for a hundred years over my daughter's body, and then someone who was directly involved in executing her showed up and was like "we're all made of stardust and stardust is forever so it's not like she even really died," that person would not live to see the sunrise

[obscoros]

gravity fissure is so badass i can't lie. here's essek looking beautiful right before he ruins someone's day with one of newton's laws.

INPRNT < if you want to take him home

[raayllum]

1x03 / S6

[amburuthings]

– Vir shiral malasa, bellanaris.

[icarus-daedaluss]

Pov: U r in a war w dragons"ᵈʳᵃᵍᵒⁿ ᵉʳᵃ"🗡

[eyra]

love and light to big blue sky readers everywhere but for the last time, yorkshire is not in wales.

wales is a whole different country. please…. please learn this…. this is important